Lent term 2015

LOVEDAY HOUSE LENT TERM 2015 Someone asked me the other day what a normal

8.10 - Callover and announcements for the whole

working day is like so I thought that in this term’s

house – my daily chance to congratulate, remind,

newsletter I’d give you an insight:

grumble, warn, laugh, cry and generally witter on at the house who very politely indulge me by clap-

A day in the life of a Housemaster: 06.15 - Alarm goes off (but there is every chance I have already been woken up by another alarm clock in the shape of my 3-year-old, William).

06.30 - Tea for Mrs L and I’m at my desk shortly afterwards.

07.00 - Round the house catching up with boys and generally making sure everyone is up or getting up (the 3-year-old alarm clock generally tags along). I also write up the day’s events on the white board outside my study and put up the

ping at the right time and pretending to laugh at my bad jokes. We head off to chapel with my usual cry of…. ‘make sure we sing well!’.

08.45 - 12.30 - A morning mixture of teaching, meetings, marking, dealing with emails or phone calls – all part of the staple of teaching. Punctuated by morning break.

12.30 - More teaching and then lunch – steam puddings are, of course, ideal for incredibly busy teenagers who are going through growth spurts but have rather less beneficial effects on the waists of ageing housemasters.

13.00 - 14.00 - Junior and Senior Callovers – not so many announcements on this occasion but more ‘a word in the ear’ with individuals. Also a chance to catch up with Claire and kids if they are at home.

‘quote of the day’. Something I do every day, sometimes its profound, sometimes thought provoking

15.00 - 17.00 - mixture of sport or lessons depend-

and sometimes just silly. My favourite of the latter

ing on what day of the week it is. Getting out and

variety remains: ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m

doing some coaching probably keeps me sane.

a schizophrenic, and so am I’, by the American com-

There are times when I realise I have not actually

poser Steve Levant.

left the school campus for a week and I hardly ever have any cash on me (much to Claire’s frustration)

07.50 - A daily meeting with Mr Welch and Mr Page

as I never go into a shop.

over coffee to discuss what is happening or what has happened. This invariably breaks down into the relative merits or failings of Chelsea, Man Utd or West Ham (I’ll leave you to work out who supports who…)

17.00 - 18.00 - My favourite part of the day in the house – the boys are doing all manner of things from Latin vocab to playing football on Loveday

field to making up quiz questions over a cup of tea

22.00 - Wash-up with the duty team and lock-

in Matron’s room. I usually wander around the up, make sure the Sixth Form are in their rooms. public areas of the house with the kids and Claire. Grab something to eat !

I’m amazed by how tolerant and caring the Fourth Formers are with George and William despite my 22.30 - 23.00 - Chase the Sixth Form night owls two generally getting in the way.

18.00 - 19.00 - Tea, bath and bed for the kids at home - all a bit of a rush but I usually manage at

to bed before heading there myself eventually.

Everyday is, of course, a little bit different but that is what makes the job so interesting.

least one bed time story before ringing the bell for start of prep at 19.05.

Andy Logan

Future Term Dates: Summer Term 2015 Term Starts Tuesday 14 April - Boarders 5.30pm Wednesday 15 April - Day Pupils 19.15 - 20.45 – Prep spent doing general teaching admin or getting round the house and talking to boys. In the modern world it is rather too easy to run a boarding house from a computer so I make a point of one or two duty nights a week spending time going from room to room and just chatting to the boys about what is going on in their lives. It always cheers me up.

Long Leave Friday 22 May (3.45pm) Sunday 31 May (9.00pm) End of Term Sunday 28 June - after Speech Day Michaelmas Term 2015 Term Starts Wednesday 2 September Boarders 5.30pm

21.15 - 22.00 – Rolling times for bed and the usual

Thursday 3 September - Day Pupils

procedures this involves – I am always amused by

Long Leave

the excuses given for not handing phones in: ‘It’s

Friday 21 October (3.45pm) -

my alarm clock’, ‘It’s got my German prep on it’,

Sunday 1 November (9.00pm)

‘Phone, what phone?’, ‘Pardon, je ne parle pas An-

End of Term

glais’ etc. etc.

Wed 9 December (11.00am)

Loveday House Quiz Following last year’s charity cycle bonanza, the

‘Finlay’s Fighters’ and ‘Beyond Ourselves’. A

esteemed Loveday charity committee had a lot to

fantastic total of £3500 was raised for these two

live up to but on Saturday 14th March a fun filled

charities.

charity quiz evening was held in the dining room.

Everyone enjoyed drinks and nando's style chicken before sitting down in teams to do the quiz.

The quiz itself consisted of 10 rounds on various topics with perhaps the most memorable being beat the intro. With Joss Pinnington and Harry Moore as comperes and Mr Verdon as the quizmaster, the evening ran smoothly. In the end ‘Cheesed Off’ emerged as convincing winners of the quiz. The entertainment continued well into the night with a raffle and numerous musical performances from among others Charlie Forrest and Reuben Gray whose solo's were excellent. Many thanks goes to all the people involved: to Mr Logan and Mr Welch for putting the whole event together, to the catering staff for serving up a delicious meal, to the many members of the sixth form for waiting the tables, and to the teachers and parents that took part in making the evening so special. However, most importantly thank you to all those who donated to the two charities:

Angus Barrett

Junior House Water polo

Senior House Water polo

Defending the deep end first against North in

The senior house water polo competition looked to

the opening fixture, North were able to get

be a promising one for Loveday as we were

many shots on target. Nobody however, had

equipped with a good proportion of the school wa-

banked on the ability of Benjy Carr in goal who

ter polo team. Our first match was against Cubitt

stopped whatever they threw at him. In the

who never looked as though they were going to

end, we proved more clinical in the second half,

come out on top. This first match was a bit of a walk

with two goals. This meant we went into the

over with Jamie Linford, James Harris and myself all

final against a strong East side. In the

putting the ball in the back of the net to contribute to the eventual 7-1 win. The second match was against a far stronger East side, who had the other

first quarter they scored two early goals, putting us on the back foot. We soaked up the pressure

half of the school water polo team. We took an ear-

and managed to go into the final quarter only

ly lead again with Jamie Linford and James Harris

two goals down. Ben Church then managed to

both scoring goals taking the score to 2- 0 up. The

pull one back to give us a fighting chance. He

fatigue began to show as this match was twice the

then duly converted another to take the game

length of the previous one and they were back-to-

to penalties. Harry Serjeant blasted his one be-

back matches. As a result East were able to equalise

yond the reach of their goalkeeper into the top

in the last quarter and a late goal proved to be cost-

left hand corner, as did Ben Church again. East

ly. The score finished at a 3-2 win for East, however

however, were put under great pressure from

despite the loss everyone played well and enjoyed

Benjy Carr in goal who was unbeatable and

the competition.

proved the winning difference. In the end Benjy

George Berry

saved East’s last penalty to give us a 2-1 win in the shootout, leaving Loveday as champions.

Callum Job

Cross Country Loveday came third overall in this year’s cross-

in the closing 200 metres. In addition James

country. Nevertheless, despite a disappointing

Harris, Fred Philips and Matt Coates all dis-

result, the competition saw some exciting and

played the exceptional calibre of Loveday’s

exceptional running from members of all year

sporting elite, each finishing the race some-

groups. Some names deserve particular men-

where in the top ten. Well done to all runners.

tion, including Alex Hadden - Wight who exhibit-

Charlie Forrest

ed a nifty run finishing in 6th place for the intermediates. Luke Mann also ran well for the

House Debating The House debating team failed to achieve its full potential in the competition against North, but despite this Loveday demonstrated its most superb argumentative talent. Charlie Gilbert, apart from just being a handsome and charismatic man, turned out to be one of the most engaging orators in the school. He introduced Loveday’s motion "This House believes the UK should not leave the EU" - with the utmost zeal that immediately put our opposition in an awkward place. Our second speaker Callum Job demonstrated his erudite and eloquent debating manner, bringing great pride to the House and Housemaster. Nonetheless, the vocal feats performed by Gilbert and Job weren't

fourth form. With regard to the senior competi-

enough to make up for the lack of contribution

tion recognition should go to Xav Iafrate who,

from Loveday's floor debate, which made up a

uncomplainingly, stepped in at the last minute

mere third of the total score.

for an unenthused Kola Fadahunsi. Needless to

Knowing that our chances for victory disappeared

say his performance surpassed all expectations

after the floor debate, I made a heroic attempt to

and confirmed Loveday’s fool-hardy, fighting

conclude our motion with valour assuming that if

spirit. Ben Mills and Charlie Forrest adopted a

we lose we do it in style. And so, Loveday lost the

particularly subtle yet admirable team-work

House debating competition in the first round but

strategy which enabled the two to complete the

in such a way that it made North envy our perfor-

whole race side by side, nipping past Bill Bath-

mance .

urst (himself putting in a sterling performance)

Dan Khalupsky

Senior House Hockey

5th Form B’s House Hockey

We came up against a strong North opposition in

Our first of three matches was against Cubitt. We

our first match. Having started the game well, we

got an early lead through Callum Job, and managed

were unfortunate to go one goal down at half

to win the match 6—2 with two more goals from

time. In the second half, we played even better

him and Freddie Hamilton; we played well and

hockey and we were able to force the equaliser

looked in great shape for our next game. We then

after a powerful reverse hit from Harry Blevins proved to be too much for the goalkeeper. With a good result of 1-1 taken from a strong North side, we went into the next match against East full of confidence. This confidence was shown in our performance level and in the scoreline, as we won 9-0 with goals from Charlie Serjeant (3), Jamie Linford (4) and Charlie Gilbert (2). The final match against Cubitt however did not go our way. We created

faced a well organised North, we conceded early but came back to draw 1-1 in a close end to end game.

lots of chances and exploited a frail defence but

The final game was against East which we drew 2-2

we were unable to score enough goals, having hit

with a great last minute equaliser from the captain

the post several times and with a goal being disal-

Tom Hayes. Hector Berry, Tom Hayes and Dillon

lowed. Despite our resilience, Cubitt won a dra-

Stingemore all played exceptionally throughout the

matic match which finished 4-2. Even though we

tournament.

were unable to find victory, we managed to come

Nick Marshall – Turner

a close second. Well done to everyone involved as it was a performance to be proud of.

Giorgio Bounous

Junior House Hockey We had a good team on paper for our first game.

However, we came up against a stronger East team.

We all put in great performances; Ben Church and Ben Whalley played very well although we lost 1-0.

Then we played a good Cubitt team and drew 0-0 with great effort from Matt Cavanna and Toby Rust.

A couple of days later we played against a weaker North

team

and

won

4-0

with

excellent

performances from Jack Collins (who scored three goals) Archie Collins and Ben Church .

Oliver Clift

5th Form A’s House Hockey

game and North were on the break. A quick ball up

We started off by playing Cubitt in the first round.

to their right wing and a deflection over a diving

It was a close game with near misses from Cooper,

Binnion gave them the lead. North 1, Loveday 0.

Reed and Floyd. By half time we were all square

William Warner

and it looked like we had the upper hand, with the most possession; however Cubitt were awarded a

Senior House Football

penalty flick for Binnion doing a nasty takeout at

The house football is one that Loveday house is

their striker’s feet. Thankfully, they missed and

gutted to have lost. After a tactical masterstroke

the game ended 0 - 0.

from the captain Kola Fadahunsi which saw non regulars such as George Berry and Xavier Iafrate deployed in defensive positions in order to stifle the North attack, we were able to win 2-0 through goals from Harry Moore and Ollie Pope and advance to the final against East House.

We had a real chance of claiming the trophy, and it

In the second game against East we were fairly confident as they did not have the strongest team.

We set off and got a good goal by Reed to put us 10 up, then moments later a cheeky finish from Dan Evans, sneaking up from the back scored a 2nd goal. In the second half it was apparent that we were having a laugh, as we started the half with a huge kick from Binnion in goal. Floyd then scored a fantastic goal that was going into the roof of the net, and then was knocked down into the bottom corner, a superb Birthday goal. To finish it off, I took the ball from a short corner and flicked it low for Cooper to deflect into the back of the net.

In our final game against North, we needed the win to give us the overall 1st position. We started strong with neither side getting that many shots off. Some dirty tackles by North got us heated up and we fought back with some near misses in the second half. We began to lose our energy by the end of the

was shown as we dominated the opening exchanges. We took the lead just before half time through good pressure from James Harris which resulted in an own goal from the opposition. We fought valiantly, but unfortunately an equalizer came through after a lapse in concentration from a defender which meant that the game was balanced at 1-1 after normal time.

A feisty extra time period produced lots of entertainment but no goals which meant that the game was to be decided by the much hated penalty shootout. A wonderful save by Christian Russell kept us into sudden death and a clean Joss Pinnington penalty meant that we would move on to the 7th respective penalties. Kola Fadahunsi stepped up as other teammates were reluctant but was not able to convert, East dispatched their final kick, meaning silver was all we could achieve.

Kolawole Fadahunsi

Stonesett Report Stoneset is hockey for the non-hockey players, a day when you are not selected for your talent but your desire to win. Loveday have an abundance of players who were never disheartened by the challenge they faced. Pinner’s Winners and Camo’s Crew pulled off a three win sweep, with Harry Moore finishing brilliantly for Pinner’s Winners, and only 3 matches were lost altogether. Rust was solid

at the back and fed balls straight through Cubitt, while Kola ran rings around their defence… with one hand. We won all of our matches against Cubitt, and lost only one, by just one goal in a very close game, to North, egged on by a strong and very loud band of Matron’s Corner Loveday reds who never fail to disappoint.

Overall it was a very good day with Loveday winning the tournament by just 1 point; the

All medications and house bank money to be handed into the matrons on return to school.

belief shown by the players was tremendous

Please name all clothes that will be brought back to

and will be a day for the memory book for

school after Easter.

years to come.

Thank you!

Joss Pinnington

Matrons